Top 11 favorite Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes

1. “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

2. “All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems… But all these stars are silent.”

3. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

4. “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

5. “All grown-ups were once children…but only few of them remember it.”

6. “Grown-ups love figures… When you tell them you’ve made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you ‘What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?’ Instead they demand ‘How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?’ Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.”

7. “Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truely important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.”

8. “Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”

9. "How could there by any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die with the fullness of his being.”

10. “True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”

11. “The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunes him more deeply into them.”